6. “Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening”
Emotions
Imagery
Events
Motive
Described
Inferred
7. Inference or Evidence?
1. It is the middle of winter.
2. The speaker feels guilty and uncertain about stopping.
3. The speaker has lost his way.
4. At the end of the poem, the speaker leaves the woods
and heads home.
5. The speaker thinks uneasily about his own death.
6. The owner of the woods and the speaker don’t get
along.
7. The speaker admires the snowy woods.
8. Journal Entry
What might be the circumstances that have
brought the speaker to this spot in the wood?
What might have compelled him to stop on so cold
and dark a night?
What might be the speaker’s relationship to the
person whose woods these are?